BEFORE YOU SLIP INTO UNCONSCIOUSNESS PLAYLIST

T H E D O O R S ‘BEFORE YOU SLIP INTO UNCONSCIOUSNESS’ P L A Y L I S T
including the lyrically poetic
‘THE CRYSTAL SHIP’
A compilation of our favourite Doors arrangements along with the compelling lyrics and inspiration behind these iconic tracks.Before you slip into unconsciousnessI’d like to have another kissAnother flashing chance at blissAnother kissAnother kiss

The days are bright and filled with painEnclose me in your gentle rainThe time you ran was too insaneWe’ll meet againWe’ll meet again

Oh tell me where your freedom liesThe streets are fields that never dieDeliver me from reasons whyYou’d rather cryI’d rather fly
The crystal ship is being filled
A thousand girls, a thousand thrills
A million ways to spend your time
When we get back
I’ll drop a line

While many of Jim Morrison’s early songs reflected his LSD-fuelled efforts to run through the doors of perception, as well as his headlong attempts to break on through societal constraints, he was also quite capable of producing a gorgeous, delicately poetic piece like ‘The Crystal Ship’.

The lyrics are at once soothing and ominous, and Jim’s gentle, smoky baritone may have surprised those who were tempted to write him off as a one-dimensional rock ‘n’ roll ranter.

The mysterious, seemingly inscrutable nature of ‘The Crystal Ship’ also got Doors’ listeners used to developing their own interpretations of Morrison’s wordplay. “It’s about methedrine, isn’t it?” asks Kim Fowley, who was duly impressed with the song when he first saw the Doors at the Los Angeles club, Ciro’s. “Good old-fashioned speed certainly was a drug of choice on the Sunset Strip back then.”

In fact, Morrison had composed the song much earlier, and the lyrics were from poetry written in Jim Morrison’s notebooks. He wrote it after splitting up with his girlfriend, Mary Werbelow, in the summer of 1965.

A line in the final verse of the song at one point read: a thousand girls, a thousand pills’ but was changed to “a thousand girls, a thousand thrills” before the song was recorded, and despite the somewhat sombre tone of the song, it’s concluding phrase – “When we get back, I’ll drop a line” – shows a flash of the wry Morrison sense of humor which was so often overlooked.

The song was released as the B-side of ‘Light My Fire’ in April of 1967.

source excerpt : Chuck Crisafulli/Waiting-forthe-Sun.net

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